 | James Silk Buckingham - 1826 - 652 pagine
...desolation of the Moréa, together with the inefficacy of a Turkish commissariat, will place pereptual obstacles in the way of Ibrahim's progress, and will...and the strong positions of his native mountains. \Ve cannot easily conceive that Greece is destined to be subjugated by Egyptians. Even Sesostris drove... | |
 | 1826 - 696 pagine
...desolation of the Morea, together with the inefficacy of a Turkish commissariat, will place pereptual obstacles in the way of Ibrahim's progress, and will...active and hardy Greek in the rude climate, the barren sod, and the strong positions of his native mountains. We cannot easily conceive that Greece is destined... | |
 | 1826 - 600 pagine
...enabled the Pasha to mould ' his Egyptians to the European discipline, is allied to an infe' riority in hardihood and energy to the European and Asiatic ' Turks, with whom similar attempts have failed.' ' The Egyptians,' he proceeds, « are precisely the troops least adapted to face the active... | |
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Turkish commissariat, will place perpetual obstacles in the way of Ibrahim's progress, and will render the arduous task of subduing the mountains of Greece still more difficult. That tractability of disposition which has enabled Mehmet Aly to mould his... 